CLOSE FITTING GAT[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 150, 18 February 1932, Page 4

CLOSE FITTING GAT[?]

i [A TRUE STORY OF THE LAR LADY AND THE SMALL i TURNSTILE A RACE DAY INCIDENT

\ Some people coming home fi , races often wish the gate was wid but the majority usually find accommodation sufiicient on the tj in. This, however, was not the perience of a stout natlve woman ^ determined to he in at the stait Tuesday, got halfway through the, trance turnstile at Arawa Park could get no further. A lot of people who go to races and aff wards wish that something had t pened to prevent them, might 1 accepted the omen, but this g lady was determined to be in at; death or take the turnstile with! "Let ma have men ahout me t are fat," said the gentleman in JuJ Caesar, but though not so ungall as to apply it to a lady, he would \ had no support from the Roto Racing Club's gatekeeper who _ ' faced with the difficulty of adniiti a lady yvider than his gate. J It was an embarrassing predi ment both for the lady and the gs lceeper, and it was only after a d of pushing and pulling that the g was persuaded, like the dentists I ient, to "open a little wider" and her in. The Maori and the picai which she carried with 'her, took in good part and so did the gate, the gatekeeper, who had had all hard. work was not so enthusias Unf ortunately, fashion writers P ed the incident or it might have , chronicled that racing clubs are ba ing gates.closer round the hipsj season. So far as the lady was t cerned, it was all in the day's^ mai I and the gatekeeper had the big # J open when she returned. _ hi j pleasant idiom of our American { sins, a woman can be "giveiH gate," but it has remained for S rua to show that if she is not g' it, she may take it.